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A64567	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Lords assembled in Parliament, in the abbey church of St. Peters, Westminster upon the fast-day appointed April 10, 1678 by William, Lord Bishop of St. Davids.	Thomas, William, 1613-1689.	1678 (1678)	Wing T982; ESTC R10527	17,218	50

A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right HONOURABLE THE LORDS Assembled in Parliament In the Abbey Church of St. Peters Westminster Upon the Fast-day appointed April 10. 1678. By WILLIAM Lord Bishop of St. Davids LONDON Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Tho. Collins at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet-street and William Leach at the Crown in Cornhill near the Stocks Market 1678. Die Jovis 11 o Aprilis 1678. ORdered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the Thanks of this House be given to the Lord Bishop of St. Davids for his Sermon preached yesterday in the Abbey Church at Westminster before the House of Peers it being appointed by His Majesty to be observed as a Publick Fast-day in the Cities of London and Westminster And his Lordship is desired by this House to Print and Publish the said Sermon JO. BROWNE Cleric Parliament A SERMON Preached before the Right Honorable The HOVSE of PEERS At the Abbey Church of S. Peters Westminster on April 10. 1678. S. Luke 13. ver 5. I tell you Nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish OUr blessed Saviour having in the close of the former Chapter treated of the disconsolate close of life of the dismal state of Man dying unreconciled to God in security impenitency it being a symptom of the most irrecoverable misery not to commiserate ones self to be upon the brink of the greatest peril and not to dread the least Some Passengers that accidentally intervened boulted out the fresh Tragical Intelligence of the destruction of the Galileans This is the Novel and for ought I find single conjecture of Maldonate It is more credibly and generally asserted that some of Christs set Auditors here took the hint and mentioned the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their Sacrifices as if a singular impiety had rendred them liable to this singular cruelty as if God had cull'd them out for vessels of his indignation to be poured into as if he had set them for Brands of an unparallel'd unremitted guilt Our humane corrupt Nature is no less prone to impeach to doom wickedness at distance than to espouse embrace it at hand Christ the true Oracle teacheth the Israelites better Divinity not to usurp Gods Throne of Judicature to pass Sentence of Condemnation upon others but to erect a Tribunal in their own bosome to arraign themselves Christ reproveth their erroneous sentiment touching the Galileans embrued in their own Oblations the Offerer being become the Offering And touching the Eighteen persons shivered to their first Principles by the sudden demolition of the Tower of Siloam As for both the estimate the measure of their vices is not to be taken by their calamities I tell you Nay but except you repent you shall all likewise perish The Text is chequer'd with Clemency and Severity it blunts the edge without to restrain our censure and sharpens it within to excite our repentance It is a Pillar of Cloud by day to enwrap the offences of others in an obscure concealment it is a Pillar of Fire by night for the discovery of our own to enlighten our judgments to enflame our zeal not to be Satyrists Criticks but Penitents Converts The Text is twice recited within the compass of five verses it is a reiterated smart admonition the same sacred advertisement upon a double dysaster the one permitted by God executed by Pilate the other hath the aspect of a more immediate stroke of the Divine Justice The Text brancheth it self to two Propositions The one negative implicite wrapt up I tell you Nay The other positive explicite unfolded Except you repent you shall all likewise perish The first may be thus unvailed Neither the Galileans slaughtered amidst their Sacrifices nor those Eighteen Persons crush'd at the Tower Siloam were greater Transgressors than the other Israelites It is Debtors above others in the immediate precedent verse It is a frequent Syriack Idiom They were not more chargeable for the Talent misemploy'd embezel'd than other accomptants in Israel The Proposition admits a double surveigh Historical and Doctrinal In our Historical consideration there is an harmony among Expositors touching those that perish'd at the Tower of Siloam A Narration scarce any where else extant in Sacred or Prophane Records Touching the former Calamity that of the Galileans there hath been started variety of Opinions Some gloss the Title Galileans to be a disguise for Samaritans Galilee being out of the Verge of Pilat's Jurisdiction St. Cyril of Alexandrina and others in his Track unmasque the Galileans to be the Disciples of Judas the Gaulonite a grand turbulent Incendiary who had trained his Scholars in a Lecture of the blackest grain of Sedition Nigriani in the primitive style who instructed them to withdraw their obedience from the Roman Empire and their intercession for the Emperour Whereof Pilate being certified surprised massacred these Galileans as they were celebrating their Sacrifices Samaritans they might be for Climate for extraction and yet denominated Galileans for their Sect for their Tutor There is a third Relation of a famous or rather infamous Magician of Galilee who in the notion of a Messiah had incouraged multitudes saith Aegesippus conducted them to Mount Ge●izim alledging he would thence ascend to Heaven Which Imposture Pilate blasted in the bud confuted their blasphemy not by the Tongue or Pen but by the Sword To decline the Historical view of the Proposition the Doctrinal may be thus displayed The greatest pressures the sharpest miseries the saddest periods of this Life are no demonstrative Arguments to conclude the greatest sinners The Clouds distil their soft dew pour down their fertil showers the Sun darts its warm beams its benign influences to all sorts of men God freely communicates secular blessings to Saints and Miscreants he is thus kind to the unthankful and to the evil gracious to the ungrateful to the ungracious notoriously vitious as the Original imports The accommodations of this World are bestowed upon good men lest they should be deemed branded to be absolutely evil and upon evil men lest they should be reputed magnified to be absolutely good As the prophanenest Wretches have some commendable qualities to be recompenced So to poise the Scale of the Doctrine the severest Votaries have some infirmities to be corrected being pure Bullion from the Oar not the Furnace to be refined by afflictions which are their purgations Christ doth not vindicate the slaughtered Galileans nor those mangled at Siloam from being offenders Their calamities were the transcript of their vices Death is the stipend of guilt in the Apostles phrase it is the vilest wages of the vilest warfare of sin The denial is fastned on the Comparative not the Positive they were not greater sinners If Gods Spiritual favours were to be proportion'd by Temporal Mahumetans must be preferred before Christians Babylon would shine with a brighter lustre than Jerusalem or Antioch No Countrey hath been more polluted branded with Idolatry